Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock & Roll Steakhouse will not be closing regardless of what Nashville’s mayor might say, thank you very much: “The request made by Mayor Cooper is unconstitutional”
Defiant. Photo: Google Maps Amid an escalating global pandemic, a brazen few remain recklessly defiant: the approximately 3,500 French Smurfs who recently assembled in Landernau, gleefully flouting their government’s 1,000-person cap on mass gatherings; the U.S.
On Sunday, restaurateur and co-owner of Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock & Roll Steakhouse Steve Smith issued a statement rejecting Mayor John Cooper’s directive that area bars and restaurants shut their doors to mitigate the spread of coronavirus.
As coronavirus cases balloon — in Nashville and across the U.S. — many cities have placed restrictions on the number of people who can gather in one place and on the types of businesses that can stay open. This is a pressing matter of public health, because unless people practice social distancing, the virus will likely continue its exponential spread, ravaging elderly populations.
Some of Smith’s peers have cited an apparent lack “of city or state financial assistance,” which would allow them to forgo profits for an indeterminate period of time, in explaining their decision to stay open. And certainly, coronavirus quarantines could be devastating for small businesses, but Smith’s statement didn’t say anything about that.
But that boomer must now be in the high-risk-age demographic for coronavirus infection, and we hope they are staying inside. With apologies to Kid Rock, we will certainly be doing so, rather than hitting his Big Ass Honky Tonk as is our Monday-night custom. We will be gnawing our way through our Big Ass freezer steaks in the comfort of our own quarantines, thinking wistfully of touching our faces while we indulgently text our exes.
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